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Lestari, Dinda Putri, and Evangelista Lus Windyana Palupi. "Representasi Matematis Siswa dalam Menyelesaikan Masalah Teorema Pythagoras berdasarkan Tahapan Polya Ditinjau dari Perbedaan Gender." MATHEdunesa 12, no. 2 (July 30, 2023): 588–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.26740/mathedunesa.v12n2.p588-610.
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Mathematical representations is the real product or result that represent mathematical ideas in various forms, such as diagrams, graphs and other concrete forms to help finding solutions to problems. Mathematical representation in problem solving is the main thing since, the use of right mathematical representation can help in solving the problem correctly. The purpose of this research is to describe the mathematical representation of masculine male students and feminine female students in solving Pythagorean Theorem problems based on Polya's stages. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The research subjects were 3 masculine male students and 3 feminine female students at Junior High School 2 Gresik. Data is collected using BSRI questionnaire, mathematical ability test, problem solving test, and interviews. The results of problem solving test were showed that at the stage of understanding the problem, masculine male students presented known information using visual and symbolic representations while feminine female students used verbal and symbolic representations. To present what is being asked, masculine male students and feminine female students using verbal representations. At the planning stage, masculine male students and feminine female students explained solving strategies using verbal representations. At the stage of carrying out the plan, masculine male students and feminine female students solving the problems using visual, symbolic, and verbal representations, and presenting the results of the solution using verbal representations. At the re-examining stage, masculine male students and feminine female students using verbal representations to conclude the completion results and checking the completion results using symbolic representations.
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Dockhorn Seger, Dayanne, and Carolina Kesser Barcellos Dias. "A REPRESENTAÇÃO FEMININA NOS VASOS CERÂMICOS ÁTICOS: O DISCURSO ICONOGRÁFICO COMO MÉTODO PARA NOVAS REFLEXÕES." Cadernos do LEPAARQ (UFPEL) 14, no. 27 (June 29, 2017): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/lepaarq.v14i27.10543.
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RESUMO: Neste artigo, abordamos os vasos cerâmicos áticos como meio de reavaliar discursos normativos estabelecidos em torno do gênero feminino na Grécia antiga. Para isso, traçamos um breve histórico sobre o material cerâmico como fonte arqueológica e sobre os estudos da iconografia grega e das representações femininas, promovendo novas interpretações acerca da representatividade do espaço e do trabalho feminino na pólis ateniense. ABSTRACT: In the present study, we examine attic pottery as a means to reevaluate normative discourses established around feminine social roles in ancient Greece. In order to do so, we outline a brief historic concerning pottery as an archaeological source and the studies of iconographic discourse and feminine representations, providing new understandings about the relevance of citizen women’s work and space in the Athenian polis.
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Cardoso, Inês. "FIGURAÇÕES DO FEMININO NA POESIA ERÓTICA DE ALBERTO PIMENTA." Revista Desassossego, no. 17 (December 28, 2017): 183–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v0i17p183-197.
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Resumo: Pensar a erotização do corpo feminino na poesia portuguesa da segunda metade do século XX exige a revisitação de uma nova imagem da mulher, que à altura se apresentou espelhada numa visão libertária da sexualidade feminina e na ação reivindicativa da luta feminista. Partindo das três primeiras obras de Alberto Pimenta, cuja publicação coincidiu, em território nacional, com o período de vigência do Estado Novo, este artigo procura compreender o modo como as figuras femininas emergem num fazer poético onde o erotismo sempre caminhou a par de uma denúncia profundamente cáustica e irreverente.Palavras-chave: Alberto Pimenta, poesia portuguesa, poesia erótica, figurações do feminino, erotismo. Abstract: In order to contemplate the eroticisation of the female body in Portuguese poetry from the second half of the twentieth century, it is necessary to re-visit the new image of woman, which at that time was reflected in a libertarian vision of female sexuality and in the increasing activism of the feminist struggle. Focusing on the first three works of Alberto Pimenta, whose publication coincided, in the Portuguese context, with the “Estado Novo” dictatorship, this article seeks to understand the way in which female figures emerge from a poetic practice where eroticism always appeared in tandem with a deeply caustic and irreverent social criticism.Keywords: Alberto Pimenta, Portuguese poetry, erotic poetry, representations of the feminine, eroticism.
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Pérez, Laure. "Nuevas figuras de la Revolución cubana: las mujeres en el Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, 1960-1990." RIHC. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación 2, no. 15 (2020): 66–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/rihc.2020.i15.04.
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This article studies women’s representation in the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, the Cuban Revolution’s newsreel, directed by Santiago Álvarez. It was shown every week between 1960 and 1990, covering aspects of international and national news. It became an important audiovisual tool to spread revolutionary ideas in Cuba. Thus, this article studies the Noticiero ICAIC referring to the concept of “political mediation”: it fulfilled a mediatory function, between Cuban leaders and the people, in the process of building a new society. In the concrete case of women, their representation centers around three protagonists, who also are three possible ways for them to participate in the revolutionary society: the worker, the sportswoman and the militianwoman. With these new feminine representations, the Noticiero ICAIC reflects and gives legitimacy to social and economic changes that can be observed in revolutionary Cuba, especially women’s participation in productive labor. It also contrasts with traditional representations of femininity, associated with the domestic sphere. This article studies these three feminine representations analyzing examples taken from the Noticiero ICAIC’s weekly editions, that can be short reports or editions enterely dedicated to women’s situations
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Towns, Ann E. "‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat." Review of International Studies 46, no. 5 (October 6, 2020): 573–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210520000315.
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AbstractThe aim of this article is to examine whether and how diplomacy may be gendered, symbolically and rhetorically, using US representations of diplomacy as a case. Prior scholarship on gender and contemporary diplomacy is sparse but has shown that the symbolic figure of ‘the diplomat’ has come to overlap tightly with ‘man’ and be associated with traits often attributed to masculinity. Inspired by queer international relations methods, relying on the concept of ‘figuration’ and focused on US news media and biographies of diplomats from the past decade, this article uncovers and examines a palette of feminised figurations also at play in US representations of diplomacy, including the diplomat as ‘the “soft” non-fighter’, ‘the relationship builder’, ‘the gossip’, ‘the cookie-pusher’, and ‘the fancy Frenchman’. These feminised figurations alternate between configuring the diplomat as a woman and – more commonly – a (feminised) man. The analysis complicates rather than displaces existing claims, highlighting the importance of attention to slippages and challenges to dominant masculinised subject positions.
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Babana-Hampton, Safoi. "Literary Representations of Female Identity." American Journal of Islam and Society 19, no. 4 (October 1, 2002): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v19i4.1914.
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The essay examines the texts of the two women writers - Leila Abouzeid (from Morocco) and Nawal El Saadawi (from Egypt) - as offering two female perspectives within what is commonly referred to as "feminine" writing in the Arab Muslim world. My main interest is to explore the various discursive articulations of female identity that are challenged or foregrounded as a positive model. The essay points to the serious pitfalls of some feminist narratives in Arab-Muslim societies by dealing with a related problem: the author's setting up of convenient conceptual dichotomies, which account for the female experience, that reduce male-female relationships in the given social context to a fundamentally antagonistic one. Abouzeid's novel will be a case study of a more positive but also realistic and complex perspective on female experience ...
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Diefenthaeler, Samantha Da Silva. "Notes on Penthesilea: The marks of a past of female heroism." Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 2, no. 3 (October 19, 2020): 273–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v2i3.103.
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The goal of this paper is to construct an image map that will allow us to understand archetypes characteristics that accompany heroic representations of women in cinema. We will begin with the myth of Penthesilea, an Amazon queen whose tragic loss of feminine power will then guide us in the search for new archetypal deflections. We believe the archetype of Penthesilea signifies new leak points in representation of power as connected to the feminine. To prove that will be one of the main goals of this paper. We insist on highlighting that the images associated with the description of this character are allied to a structure linked with a kind of force and power commonly related to the male. Penthesilea bears the mark of an essentially solar/diurnal heroism, in which love will configure as an additional item that makes the characters confront each other violently. The result of this analysis will be a visual trajectory from a moment in the past that connects to contemporary representations of feminine heroism.
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García-Gómez, Antonio. "Discursive representation of masculinity and femininity in Tinder and Grindr: Hegemonic masculinity, feminine devaluation and femmephobia." Discourse & Society 31, no. 4 (February 5, 2020): 390–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926520903523.
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By analysing 200 Tinder profiles of Spanish heterosexual men and 200 Grindr profiles of Spanish queer men, this article examines these men’s online gendered and sexualised self-representation strategies. More specifically, the study develops a discourse and feminist analysis of post-feminist media cultures which contrasts these men’s discursive representations. In so doing, the article attempts to cast light on the (d-)evaluating discursive strategies these Spanish heterosexual and queer men deploy when creating their profiles. Importantly, the analysis gives evidence of how occupying the masculine or the feminine position goes hand in hand with the devaluation and policing of femininity. Furthermore, the analysis calls attention to the contradictory gender ideas present in their personal profiles and this, in turn, sheds further light on the ways they construct multiple masculine identities to negotiate their sexual gendered identities.
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Kochukova, Olga, and Sergey Kochukov. "Female Ethno-National Personifications in the Austrian Political Caricature of the Period of the Great Eastern Crisis (1875–1878)." Central-European Studies 6 (2023): 319–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2619-0877.2023.6.12.
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This paper is devoted to the gender aspect of ethno-national representations in political cartoons. The content of the study is formed by the materials of the political cartoon presented on the pages of the satirical magazines of Austria-Hungary during the Great Eastern (Balkan) crisis of the 1870 s. (Die Bombe, Der Floh, and Kikeriki). An attempt is made to systematize the feminine images of the Austrian political caricature during the Balkan crisis. Among them stand out: images of the Virgin Martyr (feminine passive-suffering personifications of the Balkan peoples and states along with the Ottoman Empire); feminine images of Austria (national representations of the country in the image of the Mother and heroized personifications of the Holy Roman Empire); images that are the personification of the theme of female deceit / “seduction” in politics and various variations of the harem theme in relation to the Ottoman Empire; feminine personifications of the infernal distortion of the Woman’s essence (war in the guise of the Gorgon Medusa, etc.). Such problems are considered as the formation of characteristic preferences of the Austrian political caricature in the distribution of variations of feminine images in relation to the image of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian empires and the Balkan peoples and states; ways of opposing feminine and masculine symbols of the countries participating in the main events of the Eastern Crisis of 1875–1878. The methodology of the research is based on “deciphering” the figurative and metaphorical way of constructing feminine ethno-national representations based on references to mythology and national history within the framework of imagology approaches, along with identifying the historical context of the international politics of the “great powers” in the Balkan region in the 1870s.
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Howansky, Kristina, Analia Albuja, and Shana Cole. "Seeing Gender: Perceptual Representations of Transgender Individuals." Social Psychological and Personality Science 11, no. 4 (September 26, 2019): 474–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550619875143.
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In four studies, we explored perceptual representations of the gender-typicality of transgender individuals. In Studies 1a and 1b, participants ( N = 237) created an avatar based on an image of an individual who disclosed being transgender or did not. Avatars generated in the transgender condition were less gender-typical—that is, transmen were less masculine and transwomen were less feminine—than those created in the control condition. In Study 2 ( N = 368), using a unique visual matching task, participants represented a target labeled transgender as less gender-typical than the same target labeled cisgender. In Study 3 ( N = 228), perceptual representations of transwomen as less gender-typical led to lower acceptability of feminine behavior and less endorsement that the target should be categorized as female. We discuss how biased perceptual representations may contribute to the stigmatization and marginalization of transgender individuals.
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Katrina, Ninfa Topacio. "Competing gender discourses: A multi-modal analysis of gender representations and femininity in a philippine magazine." i-manager's Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26634/jhss.1.2.16910.
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Recent studies in gender representation tackle issues that no longer deal with the under representation, invisibility, powerlessness, and silence of women in the media. Hence, it is aim of this study to analyze women's representation in a new light following the principles of feminism of difference. This study sought to prove that competing gender discourses and the notion of varying femininities are discursive practices that can be observed as strategies in representation in modern magazines. To prove this, multimodal analysis was used to analyze the verbal and non-verbal text of the magazine in question. Moreover, feminist critical analysis was applied to see how the use of diverse and competing discourses in the magazine are intertwined with the text producer's consumerist agenda. The analysis also shows how seemingly neutral or harmless discussions about feminine activities are actually embedded with biased ideologies about gender. A critical discourse analysis is deemed important in raising the awareness of readers regarding this manipulative process. It is through a critical look into language and discourse that one may find how unequal power relations do exist in social discourse.
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Nugraha, Dipa, and Suyitno Suyitno. "REPRESENTATION OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM IN ABIDAH EL KHALIEQY’S NOVELS." LITERA 18, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 465–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/ltr.v18i3.27012.
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The Indonesian literary tradition during the reform period was marked by the rise of female writers who raised the issue of feminism. Within the framework of locality and contextuality, the feminism movement echoed by female writers comes in diverse expressions. This study aims to describe the reference figures and issues of Islamic feminism that are represented in novels by Abidah El Khalieqy. This research uses a feminist literary criticism approach. The data sources of the research are three novels by Abidah El Khalieqiy, namely Perempuan Berkalung Sorban, Geni Jora, and Mataraisa. The technique used to gather feminist voices in the three novels is a close reading. The analysis was conducted using a descriptive qualitative method. The results of the study are as follows. First, Islamic feminist figures who were referred to by the feminism movement were Fatima Mernisi and Riffat Hassan. Fatima Mernisi is known as a misogonic hadith critic, while Riffat Hassan uses the hermeneutic principle in the interpretation of the Quran. Second, the issues of feminism represented are: the lives of women in the pesantren tradition, the position of women in the family, the view of normal sexual relations and relationships, and the interpretation of the hadiths and verses of the Qur'an relating to women. Islamic feminism voiced by Abidah El Khalieqy brings its own color compared to the Western feminism movement which refers to the concept of ecriture feminine. Keywords: Islamic Feminism, ecriture feminine, Indonesian literary history, politics of difference, intersectionality REPRESENTASI FEMINISME ISLAM DALAM NOVEL-NOVEL KARYA ABIDAH EL KHALIEQY AbstrakTradisi sastra Indonesia masa reformasi ditandai maraknya penulis perempuan yang mengangkat permasalahan feminisme. Dalam bingkai lokalitas dan kontekstualitas, gerakan feminisme yang digaungkan para penulis perempuan hadir dalam ekspresi yang beragam. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan tokoh rujukan dan persoalan feminisme Islam yang direpresentasikan dalam novel-novel karya Abidah El Khalieqy. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kritik sastra feminis. Sumber data penelitian adalah tiga novel karya Abidah El Khalieqiy, yaitu Perempuan Berkalung Sorban, Geni Jora, dan Mataraisa. Teknik yang dipakai untuk mengumpulkan suara-suara feminisme di dalam ketiga novel adalah pembacaan cermat (close reading). Analisis dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian sebagai berikut. Pertama, tokoh feminis Islam yang menjadi rujukan gerakan feminisme adalah Fatima Mernisi dan Riffat Hassan. Fatima Mernisi dikenal dengan kritik hadist misogonis, sedangkan Riffat Hassan dengan prinsip hermeneutika dalam tafsir Alquran. Kedua, persoalan feminisme yang direpresentasikan adalah: kehidupan perempuan dalam tradisi pesantren, kedudukan perempuan dalam keluarga, pandangan terhadap relasi dan hubungan seksual yang normal, dan tafsir terhadap hadist dan ayat Al-quran berkaitan dengan perempuan. Feminisme Islam yang disuarakan Abidah El Khalieqy membawa warna tersendiri dibandingkan dengan gerakan feminisme Barat yang merujuk pada konsep ecriture feminine. Kata kunci: feminisme Islam, ecriture feminine, sejarah sastra Indonesia, politik perbedaan, interseksionalitas.
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Kolářová, Marta. "Fairies and Fighters: Gendered Tactics of the Alter-Globalization Movement in Prague (2000) and Genoa (2001)." Feminist Review 92, no. 1 (July 2009): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.2009.8.
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This paper examines gender aspects of tactics of the alter-globalization movement. Focusing mainly on two transnational collective actions in Prague in 2000 and in Genoa in 2001, the research draws on participant observation, interviews with activists and analysis of the movement's alternative media. The feminist activism within the movement, the gendered tactics and their representation in the alternative media are analysed using the concept of diffusion. Although feminists are involved in the protests, and local Czech feminist activism was incited by the international mobilizations in Prague in 2000, they are often marginalized because of the emphasis on masculine confrontational and violent tactics used in demonstrations. The movement's alternative media further reproduce gender stereotypes. The visual representations of the tactics are traditionally gendered – women are depicted as fairies, men as fighters; this is because the movement does not want to appear weak and feminine, and seeks to be effective.
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M, Aruna, and Gunasundari K. "Empowering of Feminine in Indian Advertisements." International Journal of Computer Communication and Informatics 4, no. 1 (May 3, 2022): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/ijcci2212.
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In general, female stereotypes shape the advertising industry, and some recent studies suggest that other types of non-stereotype gender role representations in advertising can have many positive effects. The purpose of this study is to investigate the gender stereotypes of women in modern days advertising. Regardless of gender, there are many positive effects on the brand-related and social impact of non-stereotypic representations of the professional gender role in advertising to respondents. These results also show the format of these stereotypes about how women are portrayed in advertising. It is important that advertising supports gender equality by using positive expressions instead of harmful stereotypes. This study used content analysis to identify the different roles women play in Indian television advertising. Studies show that women are primarily portrayed in advertising as independent decision makers and users, and as an authority on the products being advertised and direct eye contact with customers in advertising and vocalization, and the product type of advertising.
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Atwal, Jyoti. "Embodiment of Untouchability: Cinematic Representations of the “Low” Caste Women in India." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 735–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0066.
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Abstract Ironically, feudal relations and embedded caste based gender exploitation remained intact in a free and democratic India in the post-1947 period. I argue that subaltern is not a static category in India. This article takes up three different kinds of genre/representations of “low” caste women in Indian cinema to underline the significance of evolving new methodologies to understand Black (“low” caste) feminism in India. In terms of national significance, Acchyut Kanya represents the ambitious liberal reformist State that saw its culmination in the constitution of India where inclusion and equality were promised to all. The movie Ankur represents the failure of the state to live up to the postcolonial promise of equality and development for all. The third movie, Bandit Queen represents feminine anger of the violated body of a “low” caste woman in rural India. From a dacoit, Phoolan transforms into a constitutionalist to speak about social justice. This indicates faith in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s India and in the struggle for legal rights rather than armed insurrection. The main challenge of writing “low” caste women’s histories is that in the Indian feminist circles, the discourse slides into salvaging the pain rather than exploring and studying anger.
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Fraidenburg, Kelly, and Laura Backstrom. "Separate and Unequal? Representations of Sportswomen on espnW’s and ESPN’s Instagram." International Journal of Sport Communication 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 168–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0306.
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Based on content analysis of 370 posts featuring sportswomen and 205 posts featuring nonathlete women on ESPN’s and espnW’s Instagram accounts, the authors address whether representations of sportswomen on social media uphold or challenge masculine domination in sports and whether this varies based on the gender of the target audience for each social media account. Catering to a predominantly male audience, ESPN’s Instagram rarely posted about sportswomen or feminism, reinforced traditional female gender roles, and relied on feminine stereotypes more frequently than espnW’s Instagram. Nonetheless, espnW upholds male dominance in sport through its separation from ESPN, the lower volume of posts about sportswomen on espnW compared with ESPN’s coverage of sportsmen, and its less engaging coverage of sportswomen.
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FODOR, Georgeta. "Female Representations and Presences in Romanian First World War Commemorative Art." Territorial Identity and Development 7, no. 2 (March 13, 2022): 29–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.23740/tid220222.
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Art does not represent reality, but it can be an expression of it. Artists always used real-life experiences, including such events as revolutions, wars, etc. as a source for their works. At the same time, political and religious leaders used artistic, visual language for promoting their military victories or the supremacy of their power or faith. So, artworks, buildings, sculptures, or paintings were valuable tools for propaganda. Art can be used as a manifestation of political power or as a form of protesting against it. Sometimes artists were asked to represent abstract values like liberty, victory, peace, or the nation. In such circumstances, artists used the feminine form and not only because the notions were feminine nouns. Considering these general premises, my study explores the female representations and presences in Romanian First World War commemorative art. The study examines how the feminine form was used in the First World War monuments. The personification of abstract notions was examined, together with the presence of real feminine figures in this type of art, and Romanian women’s involvement in creating and sponsoring these kinds of monuments. In addition, the study intends to assess the impact and the extent to which people in general, and women in particular, resonated with these monumental works of art. The main sources for this approach were the public monuments built during the interwar period as part of the commemoration practices of the war. Given the context, reference is also made to other works of art having female representations, created by the same artists who created the monuments under review.
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Eisen, Daniel B., and Liann Yamashita. "Borrowing from Femininity: The Caring Man, Hybrid Masculinities, and Maintaining Male Dominance." Men and Masculinities 22, no. 5 (September 8, 2017): 801–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x17728552.
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Prevalent cultural representations of masculinity depict men as aggressive, emotionally distant individuals whose hard and muscular bodies epitomize these traits. These traditional representations of masculinity have also been linked to sexism and male dominance, which has encouraged many men to distance themselves from these representations. This study employed grounded theory methods to analyze interviews with twenty-five men about their understanding and construction of their masculinity. The analysis revealed that some men construct a hybrid masculinity by describing themselves as caring or being in touch with their feminine side to create social distance between themselves and men who adhere to traditional representations of masculinity. While men incorporated what they viewed as feminine characteristics into their identities, they reinforced, rather than challenged, the symbolic boundaries of gender and the resulting gender hierarchy. Ultimately, the men in this study were able to co-opt the language of caring to gain more prestige while reinforcing gender inequality and male dominance.
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Higonnet, Margaret. "Suicide: Representations of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century." Poetics Today 6, no. 1/2 (1985): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1772124.
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Milkovitch-Rioux, Catherine. "Écritures féminines de la guerre/Feminine Representations of War." L'Esprit Créateur 40, no. 2 (2000): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2010.0089.
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Baluran, Claudette. "Fun and Fearless: Magazine Covers, Feminine Ideologies, and Representations." Recoletos Multidisciplinary Research Journal 6, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.32871/rmrj1806.01.01.
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HATİPOĞLU, Gülden. "Erotics of War and Sovereignty in Iris Murdoch’s The Red and the Green." Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences 22, no. 3 (July 28, 2023): 852–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21547/jss.1237803.
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In The Red and the Green the Irish writer Iris Murdoch creates a narrative universe that focuses on the Easter Rising of 1916, one of the most tumultuous turns in twentieth century Irish history, and introduces a rich web of moral conflicts and dilemmas experienced by members of an Anglo-Irish community in Dublin. The main concern of this article is to introduce a reading of Murdoch’s The Red and the Green in the context of the mythopoetic discourse of the Easter Rising of 1916, which predominantly reflected the nationalist rhetoric of the Irish Revivalist Movement, and to show how Murdoch revisualizes recent Irish history through her own cultural origins. The argument is grounded on the premise that Millie features in the novel as the embodiment of the feminine archetype and symbolic representation of the Erotic in stark contrast to the war rhetoric of the Easter Rising that relies heavily on the desexualized, romanticized and idealized versions of the feminine in Celtic mythic imagination. Millie’s feminine archetypal image and her symbolic representation of Eros distorts and shakes the masculine rhetoric of the Rising. As a response to the desexualized, sterile, and therefore displaced representations of the Sovereignty Goddess in the literature of the Irish Revival, Murdoch introduces a critical ethos in the novel by restoring the essence of this feminine element in the portrayal of Millie, the central character around whom the plot largely revolves.
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Mitchell, Madeline, and Merryn McKinnon. "‘Human’ or ‘objective’ faces of science? Gender stereotypes and the representation of scientists in the media." Public Understanding of Science 28, no. 2 (September 24, 2018): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662518801257.
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This article examines contemporary representations of female and male scientists in The New York Times with a particular emphasis on stereotypes related to gender and science as a profession. The selected series of profiles is approximately proportional in its representation of women in science and generally gives a rounded and diverse picture of their subjects. Traditionally ‘masculine’ characteristics (e.g. individual drive and brilliance) as well as ‘feminine’ communal skills (e.g. collaboration, communication and teamwork) are attributed to both male and female scientists. Nevertheless, textual and image analyses reveal that some differences remain in the treatment of male and female subjects, particularly in the unequal focus on combining family and career. This research identifies progress in media representations of scientists in comparison to previous studies. However, there is still room for improvement, especially in the representation of scientists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Coggins, Owen, and Molly Geidel. "Daily struggle." Journal of Popular Music Studies 34, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 59–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.3.59.
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This article investigates representations of gender and work in the hit 2016 song “Rockabye” by Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul and Anne-Marie in relation to a new orientation toward care labor and feminine performance we call “feminist realism.” Feminist realism, we argue, is a sensibility that calls attention to the disproportionate labor entailed, and risk undertaken, by performances of femininity, while despairing of structural fixes for these problems. The article assesses these issues of gender, sex and work in relation to music and dance in the “Rockabye” song and music video, arguing that the song’s depictions of exploited feminine and reproductive labor, reflected in its Nordic-British-Jamaican nexus of production, provide a particularly insightful articulation of feminist realism; we also analyze fan reviews to argue that this message resonated with audiences. Finally the article explores Sean Paul’s role as a featured artist on the track and video, drawing out the relationship between his attentiveness to the unsung labor of Jamaican musicians in creating the contemporary dance-pop scene and his support for similarly undervalued women in service work in their “daily struggle” for survival.
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Sheikh, Asmat A., and Naveed Ahmad. "Femininities In The Discourse Of Khawateen Digest Of Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 11, no. 1 (September 8, 2015): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v11i1.210.
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Khawateen Digest, an Urdu magazine, is one of the important repositories of feminine culture in Pakistan from many decades. This work attempts to explore Khawateen Digest for representation of women and provides a focus on the traditional and patriarchal female images. It endeavours to analyse issues of women as discussed in Khawateen Digest from the feminist perspective of Millet (1970) and Weedon (1987) who opine that women's social roles in patriarchal societies are defined by men. Moreover, at times, the use of language for secondary sex is not only exploitative but also sexually abusive in the respective magazine. The analysis centers on magazines as linguistic and semiotic constructs. The linguistic and semiotic content of the magazine has been encoded from a masculine and patriarchal perspective and the researcher has tried to decode it from feminist linguistic (Cameron 1998) perspective. Hence, this article is an effort to highlight the exploitative, demeaning, belittling, subjugating, subordinating, controlling and marginalizing representations of women through the analysis of linguistic and semiotic content of KHAWATEEN DIGEST.
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Cavassani, Maria Fernanda. "Women in cinema: an analysis of the cinetographic narratives of Laís Bodanzky." Cuadernos de Educación y Desarrollo 15, no. 3 (June 2, 2023): 2101–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55905/cuadv15n3-003.
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he proposal of this paper is to observe how the Brazilian cinematographic narratives have been dedicated to depicting the issue of the feminine. The objective is to comprehend the specificities of the feminine representations from the work of the filmmaker Laís Bodanzky (1969). In order to achieve this objective, this paper uses the narrative analysis (GANCHO, 1991) and the filmic analysis (VANOYE and GOLIOT-LÉTÉ, 2012), with theoretical support from Flusser (2007) about communication and culture; Benjamin (1994) and Silva and Santos (2015) about narratives; Silva (2009) to understand poetical narratives; and Beauvoir (2009) and Butler (2017) with contributions regarding gender. The results point to poetical narratives that approach possible feminine.
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Nerci, Najate. "L’hermaphrodite dans la jurisprudence islamique : Signes, identités et imaginaire." Caietele Echinox 42 (June 30, 2022): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2022.42.05.
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We intend to examine in this study the categories of thought on which ancient Islamic jurisprudence was based to build its representations of the hermaphrodite. We will see to what extent these representations have contributed to perpetuating the absolute natural and cultural distinction between masculinity and femininity, how they participate in the attribution of socially discriminatory gender roles, based on cognitively “oriented” categories. These representations and values ultimately constitute an imaginary geometry of relationships, roles and functions within an antithetical masculine/feminine bipolarity.
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Al-Shamali, Nidal. "The Representation of Masculinity and its Reflections in the Short Narrative Discourse of Badriya Al-Beshr." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences [JASS] 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 507. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jass.vol7iss2pp507-527.
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The short stories of the Saudi writer Badriya Al-Beshr focus on her constructive criticism of conventional social power that governs society. This is actually the most obvious feature of her short story collection that was published in 1993 and the other two collections, “Wednesday Evening” (1994) and “Cardamom” (2004). Social power, as Badriya Al-Beshr shows, is best demonstrated in different representations of masculinity which the researcher believes to be the key to understand intertextuality of the text and its deconstructive features. In this context, Al-Beshr faces usurpation by a counter usurpation; a usurpation through writing fiction which deprives her imaginative narrative of the usual masculine discourse. The writer has represented masculinity as a general, distorted, feature that resorts towards negative attitudes, absolute control, deprivation, disability and corruption. This extremity resulted in much complexity that is deeply rooted in the social mentality. This has deepened the ideas of absolute power and controlling discourse which are based on the concept of masculine representation as a usurpation of the other and a limiting of its presence. These ideas and the concepts they have produced have indeed generated a stable cultural pattern in the social mentality; a pattern that has developed a system of values, beliefs, visions and tendencies which are deeply rooted in the subconscious of the individual and social groups. This stable cultural pattern has specified the way the individual views himself and other social groups. This is due to the fact that representations of masculinity provide the social group with an image of itself and of the other. This, in turn, forms the collective narrative identity which represents a coherent system of pre-thinking, indications or signs and rules that are all deeply rooted in the collective mentality of the specified social group. Here comes the role of the female writer who introduces her own point of view as she deviates from the usual pattern that is so much rooted in the mentality of her society. In this respect, Al-Beshr’s short stories represent the voice of the silent subaltern that has long been controlled by masculine representations and deprived of its right to represent its feminine voice. The masculine voice has long spoken for the feminine silent voice. The female writer here is the one who introduces a genuine vision that best depicts her world and that of all women like herself. This voice faithfully represents the suffering of the silent subaltern, consequently, it has become a distinguished cultural voice that forms a counter and a rebellious discourse resisting all the other dominating contexts. This paper applies feminist criticism to discuss the previous ideas through three different dimensions. The first dimension discusses the representations of masculinity in the short stories of Badriya Al-Beshr, its symbols and the vocabulary, philosophy and visions which she uses to depict the dominating masculine discourse. The second dimension traces the general features of the counter feminine discourse that shakes the stable masculine institution, its discourse and deeply rooted images. The researcher will show to what extent this feminine discourse can form an independent active institution that competes with the masculine one and whether it would be able to replace it and speak for itself. The third dimension is a stylistic one that shall discuss the features of Al-Beshr’s narrative discourse and how persuasive it may be. In addition, the researcher focuses on the means and stylistic techniques used by the writer to face the dominating masculine discourse.
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Al-Shamali, Nidal. "The Representation of Masculinity and its Reflections in the Short Narrative Discourse of Badriya Al-Beshr." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences [JASS] 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 507–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.53542/jass.v7i2.1132.
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The short stories of the Saudi writer Badriya Al-Beshr focus on her constructive criticism of conventional social power that governs society. This is actually the most obvious feature of her short story collection that was published in 1993 and the other two collections, “Wednesday Evening” (1994) and “Cardamom” (2004). Social power, as Badriya Al-Beshr shows, is best demonstrated in different representations of masculinity which the researcher believes to be the key to understand intertextuality of the text and its deconstructive features. In this context, Al-Beshr faces usurpation by a counter usurpation; a usurpation through writing fiction which deprives her imaginative narrative of the usual masculine discourse. The writer has represented masculinity as a general, distorted, feature that resorts towards negative attitudes, absolute control, deprivation, disability and corruption. This extremity resulted in much complexity that is deeply rooted in the social mentality. This has deepened the ideas of absolute power and controlling discourse which are based on the concept of masculine representation as a usurpation of the other and a limiting of its presence. These ideas and the concepts they have produced have indeed generated a stable cultural pattern in the social mentality; a pattern that has developed a system of values, beliefs, visions and tendencies which are deeply rooted in the subconscious of the individual and social groups. This stable cultural pattern has specified the way the individual views himself and other social groups. This is due to the fact that representations of masculinity provide the social group with an image of itself and of the other. This, in turn, forms the collective narrative identity which represents a coherent system of pre-thinking, indications or signs and rules that are all deeply rooted in the collective mentality of the specified social group. Here comes the role of the female writer who introduces her own point of view as she deviates from the usual pattern that is so much rooted in the mentality of her society. In this respect, Al-Beshr’s short stories represent the voice of the silent subaltern that has long been controlled by masculine representations and deprived of its right to represent its feminine voice. The masculine voice has long spoken for the feminine silent voice. The female writer here is the one who introduces a genuine vision that best depicts her world and that of all women like herself. This voice faithfully represents the suffering of the silent subaltern, consequently, it has become a distinguished cultural voice that forms a counter and a rebellious discourse resisting all the other dominating contexts. This paper applies feminist criticism to discuss the previous ideas through three different dimensions. The first dimension discusses the representations of masculinity in the short stories of Badriya Al-Beshr, its symbols and the vocabulary, philosophy and visions which she uses to depict the dominating masculine discourse. The second dimension traces the general features of the counter feminine discourse that shakes the stable masculine institution, its discourse and deeply rooted images. The researcher will show to what extent this feminine discourse can form an independent active institution that competes with the masculine one and whether it would be able to replace it and speak for itself. The third dimension is a stylistic one that shall discuss the features of Al-Beshr’s narrative discourse and how persuasive it may be. In addition, the researcher focuses on the means and stylistic techniques used by the writer to face the dominating masculine discourse.
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Puchal Terol, Victoria. "Pernicious Female Role Models and Mid-Victorian London’s Stage." Clepsydra. Revista de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista, no. 20 (2021): 57–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.clepsydra.2021.20.03.
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Hutcheon identifies as ‘historiographic metafiction’ those pieces of fiction that expose that our cultural perception of past events is changing and malleable (129). Even though Hutcheon’s theory of historiographic metafiction has been mainly applied to fiction from the post-modern era, certain elements of historical inspiration can be traced back to fiction from the Victorian period. In this article, I propose to turn to the popular theatre of the mid-Victorian period to scrutinize the manipulation of historical female figures, paying close attention to the representation of Lucrezia Borgia as a strong-minded woman. To do so, I analyse the mid-nineteenth century as a moment for asking questions about feminine identity, feminist movements, and alternative representations of female history. By turning to lesser-known mid-Victorian popular plays by H.J. Byron, Charles Matthews, and Leicester Buckingham I will further contribute to an ongoing archaeological task of recovering lost female voices and interpretations from our recent past.
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Długosz, Kamil. "The Gender Incongruency Effect in L3 Swedish due to Imperfect Gender Acquisition in L2 German." European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 53, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 117–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ejss-2022-2031.
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Abstract The study examines gender incongruency effects during gender retrieval in L3 Swedish learners, which are due to gender misassignment in L2 German. Twenty learners of L3 Swedish who had previously acquired two gender systems; one in their L1 Polish and the other in their L2 German, completed a speeded Gender Decision Task in Swedish and an untimed Gender Assignment Task in German. All noun stimuli were congruent in gender across the three languages (neuter → neuter, masculine and feminine → uter). Learners who erroneously assigned neuter gender to feminine but not to masculine nouns in L2 German showed higher error rates and longer response latencies in their attempts to retrieve uter gender in L3 Swedish. No interference was observed for neuter nouns. The present study thus demonstrates that incorrect gender representations in L2 German compete for selection with the target gender representations in L3 Swedish and that this cross-language interference is not always successfully resolved. Based on these findings, it is suggested that in the multilingual lexicon the connection of the uter gender node to the feminine gender node is weaker than to the masculine gender node.
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Bailey, Aimee. "“Girl-on-girl culture”." Journal of Language and Sexuality 8, no. 2 (August 20, 2019): 195–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.18013.bai.
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Abstract This article investigates the construction of sex advice for queer women as it features on the world’s most popular lesbian website, Autostraddle. Based in the United States, the website is a “progressively feminist” online community for lesbian, bisexual and other queer women. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this article explores how representations of sexual and gender identity facilitate the construction of homonormativity on the website. It argues that these representations involve a tension between exclusivity and inclusivity. On the one hand, Autostraddle wants to construct an exclusive markedly lesbian subjectivity and a subcultural model of lesbian sex, which is lacking in mainstream culture. On the other hand, it aims to be inclusive of transgender and bisexual women, and to deconstruct the idea of sexual homogeneity. Findings show that Autostraddle discursively negotiates these competing goals to construct a distinctly “queer female” normativity centred on young cisgender feminine lesbians.
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Arslan, Berna, Erhan ARSLAN, and Taner SEZER. "The Visibility Of Masculine And Feminine Languages In Columns." European Journal of Language and Literature 9, no. 1 (June 10, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v9i1.p25-35.
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With the beginning of the feminist movement, gender studies developed over the "woman phenomenon” and focused only on woman researches for many years. Gender and media relations investigated in the main axis of “women's representation in the media”. The "representation of women in media texts" tried to problematized in the perspective of content analysis, discourse analysis and semiology and over these representation forms, "the image of women in patriarchal society" tried to be revealed. In recent years, as the stereotyped roles attached to man and woman underwent a change, the concept of gender has begun to be examined in different dimensions. Researches about media professionals show the existence of a male dominated media structure is still out there. As of March 2014, according to bianet.org and based on mastheads, women journalists were represented by 19% whereas men 81% in Turkish newspapers. Therefore, the news language still regenerates sexist representations as it carries masculine characteristics. The columns, that the agenda is interpreted from different angles and presented to the readers, are accepted as an important and effective content of the newspapers. Columnists examine the agenda, propose solutions to problems and present their ideas in a specific narrative and linguistic style of their own. This study studies how male and female stereotypes attributed to man and woman in social life are represented by columnists. A specialized corpus, named “TS Column Corpus” was build by 9982 columns harvested from online versions of Turkish Internet Newspapers between 2014 and 2015. The data studied over the frequency of word choices by male and female columnists and analyzed by using corpus linguistics, content and discourse analysis methods, to figure out the reflections of masculine and feminine features in the texts.
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Scherer, Z., E. Scherer, and N. P. Scherer. "Social representations concerning women daily experiences in prison." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): s907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1861.
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IntroductionViolence is a social and relational problem of humanity. When coming across a feminine jail population, the violence problem can take diverse proportions. Beyond being perpetrators of some sort of violence, these women can also be victims throughout their lives and even during their period of imprisonment.ObjectiveDescribe the social representations that imprisoned women have concerning daily experiences in prison.AimsKnowing the meaning of daily experience in prison to women.MethodsQualitative exploratory-descriptive field study, carried through with 15 prisoners of the feminine prison of Ribeirão Preto (SP-Brazil). A semi-structuralized interview was used. Results submitted to the content analysis technique.Results“Daily experiences with violence in prison”: they revealed feelings of abandonment and indifference to their health; they denounced suffering physical and psychological violence from employees and other female prisoners; the relation between them is marked by conflicts and aggressions. “Consequences of the arrest in the women's lives”: complained about the loss of contact with their familiars; there were relieves about lack of support and system's indifference for the readjustment in society.ConclusionsThis study contributed as stimulus and reference for the implementation of other researches with populations of prisons, amongst them the ones that aim to establish strategies for the reintegration of these women in society and the shift of paradigms related to them. Moreover, with the intention of supplementing researches with incarcerated women, we suggest studies that also have familiars and professionals (or visitors) as subjects.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Gomes Costa, Suely. "Das Desventuras de ser doutora." La Manzana de la Discordia 2, no. 1 (March 10, 2016): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v2i1.1414.
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Resumo: Este trabalho destaca tensões e conflitospresentes na demarcação de fronteiras de territóriosintelectuais sexualmente diferenciados, diante dedecisões e projetos femininos de aprimoramento culturale de instrução. Essas decisões confrontam-se com práticase representações sociais de regulação do tempo feminino.Cercadas de ambigüidades, representações sociais dedescrédito e de desestímulo quanto às saídas das mulherespara o espaço público, presentes em obras literárias defins do século XIX e dos anos 30 do XX, expressam, dentrequerelas próprias ao movimento de (re)construçãocontinuada das relações de gêneros, muito das cotidianasdesventuras de ser doutora.Palavras – chaves: relações de gênero - regulaçãodo tempo – obrigações femininas - público e privado –dominação – conflitos .Resumen: Este trabajo destaca tensiones y conflictospresentes en la demarcación de fronteras de territoriosintelectuales sexualmente diferenciados, en relación adecisiones y proyectos femeninos de mejoramientocultural y de instrucción. Esas decisiones se enfrentancon prácticas y representaciones sociales de regulacióndel tiempo femenino. Cercadas de ambigüedades,representaciones sociales de descrédito y de desestímulorespecto a la salida de las mujeres al espacio público,presentes en obras literarias de fines del siglo XIX y delos años 30 del XX, expresan, dentro de las querellaspropias del movimiento de (re)construcción continuadade las relaciones de género, muchas de las cotidianasdesventuras de ser doctora.Palabras clave: relaciones de género- regulación deltiempo- obligaciones femeninas- público y privadodominación-conflictos.Abstract: This paper points out tensions and conflictspresent in the demarcation of frontiers betweenintellectual territories that are sexually differentiated,with regards to feminine decisions and projects of culturalimprovement and instruction. These decisions come up against practices and social representations regulating women’s time. Besieged by ambiguities, social representations of discredit and discouragement about women coming out into public spaces, in literary works from the end of the XIX Century and the 30’s in the XX Century, express many of the everyday trials and tribulations of being a woman doctor within the struggles in the reconstruction movement continued in gender relations.Key Words: gender relations – time regulations –feminine obligations – public and private – dominationconflicts
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Ramírez López, Wilmar A. "Articulaciones de la violencia contra la mujer en el marco de las narrativas del conflicto armado colombiano." Catedral Tomada. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 8, no. 15 (January 5, 2021): 216–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.485.
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Some recent narratives about the armed conflict in Colombia have stressed the representation on the diversity of violence repertoires inscribed in the armed conflict frame upon women’s bodies. In this sense, these representations articulate a regime of visibility, as they problematize the ways in which the different cases of violence are structured and legitimized in the social frame. This paper analyzes the specific ways that the violence operates upon feminine bodies in the novels: Era mucho el miedo (2016) by Gloria Inés Peláez, La fruta del borrachero (2018) by Ingrid Rojas Contreras and La sembradora de cuerpos (2019) by Philip Potdevin.
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Harker, C. Marie. "Fat male sexuality: The monster in the maze." Sexualities 19, no. 8 (August 1, 2016): 980–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640734.
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This article explores cinematic and televisual representations of fat male sexuality; rare in mainstream culture, the few depictions foreground abject embodiment to monstrous effect. From tabloid accounts of the Fatty Arbuckle rape trial to the grotesque Highlander Fat Bastard, fat male sexuality paradoxically doesn't exist and in existing, pollutes. This over-determined representation as monstrous and threatening yet simultaneously failed and incapable points to the semiotic threat of fat masculinity: in a system where fat embodiment is marked as feminine, the fat maleness that refuses to occupy the position of feminized, passive quasi-male, reveals the simplicity of gender categories as cultural fictions.
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Feeser, Andrea. "Picasso and Éluard." Men and Masculinities 6, no. 1 (July 2003): 31–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x02250837.
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In collaborative projects that Picasso and Éluard produced in the 1940s and 1950s—particularly the 1948 book Picasso à Antibes and the 1951 book Le Visage de la Paix— they constructed images of one another and especially of Picasso that incorporate the stereotypically masculine quality of commanding leadership and appropriate the stereotypically feminine quality of supportive nurturing. This article argues that these representations usurp aspects of the feminine to figure Picasso and Éluard as peace heroes for a community of men in which women appear largely as vehicles for men's endeavors.
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Duarte, Fernando Lacerda Simões. "O feminino e a música católica: entre práticas e representações * The feminine and the catholic music: between practices and representations." História e Cultura 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2018): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18223/hiscult.v7i1.2282.
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Efeminado e feminino foram expressões recorrentes em documentos e escritos teológicos que procuraram disciplinar as práticas musicais na Igreja Católica Romana, caracterizando a degeneração do caráter por meio da música. Busca-se compreender neste trabalho as raízes desta representação, bem como a presença ou ausência feminina nas práticas musicais no Brasil. Os dados obtidos em pesquisa bibliográfica e documental foram analisados a partir dos referenciais de memória e identidade em Joël Candau, bem como de práticas e representações, em Roger Chartier. Os resultados apontam para tentativas de silenciamento do feminino na música religiosa literal e simbolicamente. Por outro lado, a presença de mulheres nas práticas musicais no Brasil foi recorrente, conforme revelam documentos musicais recolhidos a diversos acervos.
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Szaloky, Melinda. "Silence Fiction : Rethinking (Under) Representations of the “Feminine” Through Social Cognition." Cinémas 12, no. 2 (October 31, 2007): 89–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/024882ar.
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ABSTRACT This essay readdresses the issue of the social marginalization of women in light of social cognitive theories of schema- and stereotype-driven perception, reasoning, memory, and behavior. The notions of "fundamental attribution error," "stereotype threat," and "outcome dependency" will help elucidate why women's words and actions have traditionally been construed as less consequential than those of their male peers. Moreover, the essay discusses the benefits of the social cognitive model for film scholarship. It argues that social cognition's comprehensive, micro-level understanding of how our habitual, normative reality is constructed can usefully complement those theories of cinematic defamiliarization that invoke the psychology of the mind (e.g., Deleuze's "time-image").
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Darling‐Wolf, Fabienne. "Sites of attractiveness: Japanese women and westernized representations of feminine beauty." Critical Studies in Media Communication 21, no. 4 (December 2004): 325–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0739318042000245354.
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Aho, Laura-Elina. "Motherless Girls and the Orphan Myth in the Making of Nation: The Gendered Representation of a Nation in the Repertoire of the Finnish Theatre Company, 1872–76." Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 47, no. 2 (November 2020): 179–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748372720942774.
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In this article, I argue that orphanhood and motherlessness as presented in drama reinforce the gendered representations used in nationalist processes. I examine the plays presented by the Finnish Theatre Company (founded by the Finnish nationalists in 1872) in 1872–76 and analyse their contribution to the gendering of the nation. In Finland, the idea of collective nationality was established during the nineteenth century by defining an ideal ‘Finnishness’ and creating ‘national’ imagery, especially through the arts. One of the most enduring representations was the embodiment of Finland, the Finnish Maid. As the theatre was one of the nationalist’s central institutions, I argue that it had a strong role in producing imagery for their uses, and that its early repertoire reinforced the gendered representation of the nation, emphasising youth and virginity as its main features. The study’s focus is on orphanhood and motherlessness as vehicles for intensifying the feminine representation of nationality. The ubiquity of orphan girl characters and the absence of mothers emphasise the sexual metaphor of a defenceless virgin, the notions of ‘true’ origin and the nuclear family as a scale model of the nation. Simultaneously the representations naturalise the gender categorisations established in the Western cultures during the nineteenth century.
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Suzuki, Satoko. "Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 28, no. 2 (May 7, 2018): 271–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.00008.suz.
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Abstract This study demonstrates that two types of language ideologies (linguistic nationalism and feminine language normativity) influence how Japanese contemporary novels represent non-Japanese characters’ speech. It investigates the role of gender and observes that novelists only infrequently assign highly gendered utterance-final forms to non-Japanese characters when they speak in Japanese. This tendency is more salient among the representations of male non-Japanese characters. Masculine expressions seem to belong to a set of linguistic resources that are considered available only to the Japanese. This exclusivism, i.e., linguistic nationalism, might explain the lack of highly masculine forms among non-Japanese characters in novels. As for the relatively frequent assignment of gendered language for female characters, the normativity of feminine language makes it part of the basic language of all female speakers including non-Japanese individuals. In addition, feminine expressions are not as strongly associated with authenticity as masculine expressions.
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fakazis, elizabeth. "Esquire Mans the Kitchenette." Gastronomica 11, no. 3 (2011): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2011.11.3.29.
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In this article, I examine representations of masculinity and domestic cooking in Esquire's “Man the Kitchenette,” a cooking column for men published in the 1940s. Using qualitative content analysis, I examine how these representations recoded an interest in food and domestic cooking (as well as other traditionally “feminine” interests) as appropriately masculine, nurturing the development of the positive image of the “male consumer” and paving the way for the emergence of future men's lifestyle and culinary magazines.
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Walseth, Kristin, and Thea Tidslevold. "Young women’s constructions of valued bodies: Healthy, athletic, beautiful and dieting bodies." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 55, no. 6 (January 18, 2019): 703–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690218822997.
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This study examines how young female athletes understand and give meaning to pictures in the media based on their perceptions of what constitutes a valued body. A qualitative approach using visual methods (collecting photographs) and interviews is used. The participants are upper secondary school student athletes in Norway. The data are analysed with a focus on the discourse of ‘valued bodies’ and their representations. The results reveal that the young women’s constructions of valued bodies are primarily made with reference to health, beauty and dieting. The ‘beautiful body’ representation, portrayed in photographs as a fit but objectified female body, is revealed as the main representation of a valued body. The representation of ‘a body that can perform’ appears as a counter-representation and includes photographs of elite female athletes who possess powerful, sporty femininities that transgress discourses of traditionally feminine, docile bodies.
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Raymundo, Sarah Jane. "In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production." Plaridel 1, no. 2 (August 1, 2004): 91–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.52518/2004.1.2-04.
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This paper assesses feminist position-taking in the realm of capitalist book production through a close reading of four novels written by Joi Barrios for the Rosas series. The paper adopts, as a heuristic tool, a particular focus on masculine domination in order to analyze the construction of masculinity. The construction of the male textual subject is regarded as a significant moment in advancing the feminist challenge to patriarchal stereotypes reproduced in mainstream romance novels. Barrios’ ‘alternative feminist’ romance novels demonstrate a symptomatic exposition of masculine domination through a defamiliarization of the domestic, an approach that is suggestive of a break with our embededness in the social world and the taken-for-granted notions about its givenness and order. However, Barrios’ reluctance towards decisive ruptures in the representations of masculinity and femininity affirms the enduring effects of the masculine and feminine habitus and the structuring structure of masculine domination.
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Maurício, Maria José. "Feminino e Emancipação Social da Mulher." Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 27, no. 54 (2019): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philosophica2019275423.
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The present text focuses on the cultural representations of the feminine and on feminine exploitation practices in Western culture, labour and society, through deformed concepts and discriminatory mechanisms within a framework of capitalist production relations. Throughout history, and in light of the confrontation between capital and wage labour, women’s social emancipation has been the subject of debate and reflection, in particular through a materialist and dialectical approach, whose political and ideological implications are still relevant today Using as reference Marx’s “Theses on Feuerbach”, I intend to contribute to the reflection on this theme, starting from thesis 8, which states that “social living is essentially practical”. My aim is to demonstrate the pertinence of Marx’s thesis with regard to social class relations, and its connection with the issues of the feminine and the social status of women in contemporary society. In my view, Marx’s contribution can help contextualize the feminine question, conceptualize key theoretical and practical aspects, arrive at an understanding of the problem and contribute to a transformative practice, aiming at the social emancipation of human beings.
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Ricciardelli, Rose, and Kimberley A. Clow. "The Portrayal of Elements Historically Associated with Masculine and Feminine Domains in Lad and Metrosexual Men’s Lifestyle Magazines." Masculinities & Social Change 2, no. 2 (June 21, 2013): 116–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/mcs.2013.26.
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Differing presentations of masculinity exist that appear to differentially embody elements historically associated with masculine and feminine domains. Metrosexuality, for instance, has been associated with more feminine characteristics and lifestyle choices (Simpson, 1994a) while laddist masculinity was presumed to be more traditionally masculine given its focus on bachelorhood and hedonistic consumption. The present research investigated representations of stereotypical or hyper-masculine (sports, strength, cars) and stereotypical or hyper-feminine (fashion, beauty, dieting) content in a metrosexual and laddist men’s lifestyle magazine. Qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that the magazines differed in the amount of hyper-masculine material related to sports and strength, but not cars, with laddist magazines portraying this information more than metrosexual magazines. In terms of stereotypical or hyper-feminine material, both laddist and metrosexual magazines depicted fashion frequently, but the metrosexual magazines did portray this information significantly more often. The magazines did not differ in the frequency of portrayals of beauty or dieting; however they did differ in how they portrayed these topics. Implications for masculinities are discussed.
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Maia, Marta. "‘Serious girls’, prostitutes and ‘whores’. Calling genders to order." International Review of Social Research 1, no. 1 (February 1, 2011): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2011-0007.
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Abstract The sexual representations and the sexual experiences of individuals are marked by the gender they belong to, which induces social roles and differentiated ideals and determines behaviours, namely those that concern the body and sexuality. The speeches of young people questioned in an ethnological investigation on sexual representations in the Eastern suburb of Paris, denounce the opposition between feminine and masculine values, and show the difference between the representations and behaviours of young males and females. The speeches of young people denote a distinction between the ‘serious girl’, the prostitute and the ‘whore’, which marks a hierarchy of moral values, in relation to their behaviour in general and to their sexual behaviour in particular.
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Waterhouse-Watson, Deb. "All Women are Sluts: Australian Rules Football and Representations of the Feminine." Australian Feminist Law Journal 27, no. 1 (December 2007): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2007.10854389.
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